I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Take me away from all this Death.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.